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Chapter 6 - Dance of Light and Shadows

High above the clouds a titanic reptilian creature was beating its wings against the sky as it's gargantuan body bounced up and down. Despite the creatures large size its speed was that of a fighter jet, and as it moved gracefully across the sky a paciluar sight could be seen on top its lengthy back.

On its back there where three individuals holding on the creatures back, one a woman wearing a black bodysuit with raven black hair and on her right was a woman with tanned olive skin, chestnut brown hair and well defined muscles, but behind those two women was a man who was holding on the tip of the creatures tail for dear life he had raven black hair and glassy mirror like eyes that reflected the color of whatever he stared at.

While tightening his grip on the tip of the creatures tail the man with raven black hair and glassy mirror like eyes opened his mouth and called out to the creature in a loud scream saying." Kai my friend I know we have had our differences in the past and we now need to make haist, but I ask if you can listen to me for a moment and please slow down a bit in order for me to adjust myself!?" But the man's pleas went unanswered as the reptilian creature seemed to pick up the pace in spite of the man's request.

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Down bellow two figures were locked in a deadly dance. One was a radiant woman with beautiful grey eyes and tantalizing face, her hair flowed like a lake of pure light while she weilded a silver long sword and adorning her body was a pristine white armor that shined with the same radiance as her. The other was a shadowy figure of a man with raven black hair clad in onyx like armor that seemed to absorb the light around him and in his hands was a great dark odachi that looked as if it could cleve mountains. However his face showed no emotion as the entirety of his facial features were completely covered by a dark demonic mask with pools of liquid darkness laying in its eye sockets.

But then in a sudden burst of movement the man's demonic figure encroached on the woman's position and raised its arms to strick but the woman paried the strike with her sword and with the pomel of her radiant blade she struck the man in the head trying to incapacitate him but failed. In response the man shifted the weight of his body and spun around catching the woman's hand still in the air and in one fluid motion slashed his blade across the woman's stomach and proceeded to stab the great odachi through her chest piercing her heart causing her body to go limp.

Once the radiant woman's body went limp the demonic figure twisted the great odachi in the woman's heart and waited for a while as if expecting something. And for a while nothing happened, until suddenly her body began shining brighter than ever before and radiant flames began spewing from her wound's healing them. In turn the demonic figure began to let out an audible 'tsk' and then retracted his blade from her body and dissolveing into the shadows as her body fell onto the ground.

As the demonic figure retreated the radiant flames that had once covered the woman in a healing warmth,now swallowed the land with there destructive heat. Then the woman now shown glowing like the same radiant flames began to stand and walk forward. Which each step she took the surrounding objects of the area began to burst into white flames and turned to ash. Then the woman began to look around with her beutifully inhuman grey eyes, before stopping at a dark alleyway consumed by shadows. She then called out into the shadows and said in a low and authoritative tone as if giving a command instead of a plea." Sunless please... dont make me do this. If you just stop trying to kill me we can talk things out and we might be able to find a work around for [Shadow Bond]."

As she said this she Shadows within the alleyway began to stir than the demonic figure stepped out,but he was not alone. Behind the man stood seven similar shadowy figures four of with wore the same suit of onyx like armor with a helmet covering there facial features. And beside him stood his shadows,on the right was a woman clad in the same dark onyx like armor and weilded a sword made of pure darkness and whith scarlet red eyes shined with a dark radiance , to the left of him was a beautiful black steed with two horns on its head and dark iron hooves on its feet and it's crimson gaze burned towards the spirit,lastly was a small imp made of steel with large jagged teeth and a pit of flames in its mouth. Nephis then turned her head around looking at the shadowy figures forming strategies to take them down.' mmm Avatar's and his shadows this is going to be tedious.' she thought with a resound tone, she knew how adept sunny was with making shells, and would be lying if she wasn't interested in seeing him use shadow shell with his transformation ability.

In response to nephis's plea sunless took a step forward and spoke in a low growl. " Mabey you have or haven't done enough to me already and I haven't even gotten tired of you yet." Hearing those words hurt what little humanity she had left, but before nephis had even gotten a chance to process her emotions a dark cloud of shadows emerged from sunless as the four dark figures behind him began to dissolve into the shadows and then suddenly out from the shadows came four monsterous creatures. One was a large black serpent with onyx like scales and besides it was a four armed fiend with obsidian black skin holding different weapons in each hand, above both of them was a black butterfly with large wings the size of buildings with six legs with sharp points at the end of them, and lastly was a large feline creature with fur that was dark as night.

As the creatures slowly appeared out from the shadows they all lunged at the radiant figure of nephis as if they all shared the same mind. In response nephis leaped back and braced herself for the on coming attacks as the four armed fiend charged at the spirit swinging its blades at the radiant figure in front of it before its strikes were swiftly parried by nephis followed by a quick kick to the stomach temporary stunning the creature. Then sensing the black serpent lungeing towards her, she grabbed the four armed fiend and threw it towards the serpent's mouth, causing the reptile to quickly adjust its position and then used its tail to catch the fiend and proceeded to throw the creature back at nephis as the fiend adjusted its body mid air for an attack barling towards like a missile.

Startled by this nephis quickly dodged the other way before the fiend collided into the scorched pavement, but as she dodged the attack a black feline creature came from the shadows and lept towards nephis's radiant figure and tore at her back with its claws causing a large wound to appear only to be instantly healed by white flames.

She then spun her figure and kicked the large feline in its snout causing it to go flying in another direction, as she spun in the air she noticed her shadow deepening then in a sudden burst of movement the small metalic Imp with razor sharp teeth lept out from her shadow on top her back and bit down on her shoulder tearing it in two causeing her to hold in a stifled scream as the imp continued to use its claws to tear at her beautiful face.

As the imp continued to rip,tear and even consume her flesh,she then let out a low growl, ' damnation! To think I thought this little bastard was cute too!!!'. As nephis's flesh was torn her body began to instantly restore itself as the little imp continued its assult, she then grabbed the little bastard by its wrist and then threw it against the scourched pavement before kicking it into a nearby wall.

Seeing nephis distracted the four armed fiend came in and rammed its four swords through her chest as the metal imp dissolved back into the shadows. In response to this nephis summoned a torrent of white flames from her hand, severely burning the four armed and restoring her body but before nephis got a chance to continue her attack a large black butterfly crashed down from above like a meteor instantly crushing both her spine and chest with its six long pointed legs and separated nephis from her sword.

Nephis now pinned against the concrete, tried grabbing her silver long sword to cut the legs of the creature to get free but before she could the woman wearing an onyx suit of armor weilding a blade made of pure darkness came from the shadows and then kicked away nephis's blade before proceeding to raise her blade to decapitate nephis on the spot.

Seeing this nephis tried to move her body but failed, as it was to damaged to continue and added with the fact that she couldn't properly heal with the butterfly's legs still in her back. So she decided to call upon the true name of destruction along side sunless's true name, and with the last remaining strength in her body she lifted up her arm pointing at the black butterfly and summoned flames from her hand not enough to destroy the avatar but enough to make sunless consider summoning it back to him.

The butterfly then let out an inhuman wail as it tore its legs from nephis's body and flew up into the sky with its body still lit ablaze, with this opportunity nephis then grabbed her silver long sword and parried the incoming attack from the onyx covered saint. Causing the shadow to side step a bit as a beautiful black steed came from the shadows and delivered a powerful kick to nephis's chest breaking a few of her ribs, as the blow sent nephis into a nearby pile of debris.

Seizing the opportunity in front of them the shadows began to group up and started to surround her now dimly lit and slightly dazed figure in a circle like formation, and what proceeded next was a brutal onslot of attacks. Each shadow began to tear,bite,slice,kick, bruise and mangle the slowly dimming figure of the woman, but strangely enough she didn't attack back as though she was distracted.' Maybe' she thought 'I should just lay down my life and accept death,.....after all what's the point in living if the one person you love wants you dead?' she thought in a resound tone 'He said it himself I've done enough damage to his life and he's already gotten sick of me,so maybe....just maybe I can make this one

compromise..... a loved ones freedom for my life that...that doesn't sound so bad. Sunny will be free be happy....all without me....'

As these thoughts began plaugeing nephis's mind slowly snuffing out her resolve, her shadow beneath her deepend as her radiance slowly dimend as she just stood there accepting her death. And out from her shadow a demonic figure came ready to take her life like the grim reaper, it was a man with dark onyx like armor and a demonic mask weilding a great odachi in its hands and swung it aiming for her neck.

But in a sudden shift of motion nephis's body shifted before the blade could ever spill a drop of her blood. ' I...i can't die just yet' she thought but before her thoughts could go anywhere a figure of a large serpent with onyx black scales opened its mouth, and before she could react the shadow of the serpents mouth was above her and then it snapped shut with an audible 'CrUnCH!' coming from the creatures mouth, seemingly killing her on the spot.

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